Oral history interview with Barbara Jones 1990
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- Name
- Jones, Barbara (Interviewee)
- Lee, Jonathan (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Barbara Jones 1990
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Barbara Jones, oral history, 1990
- Abstract
- Childhood and early education, Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh; acquaintance with Kenneth and Mamie Clark through mutual friend; Secretary to Mamie Clark, 1948-1979, Northside Center for Child Development [Northside], continuation of duties following Mamie Clark's resignation, 1985; additional responsibilities in fundraising; variety, scope of fundraising arrangements; egalitarian work environ ment, fairness of sliding scale fees; board/ staff parties, sense of community; jump in staff size with move to Schomburg building; changes in policy with the arrival of Medicaid; weathering of financial crises; Northside's approach, reputation, influence in the field.
- Collection Name
- Northside Center for Child Development project
- Subjects
- Medicaid--New York (State); Fund raisers (Persons); Secretaries; Psychiatric clinics--Child development--New York (State); Psychiatric clinics--Work environment; Psychiatric clinics--Financial crises; Jones, Barbara; Clark, Mamie; Clark, Kenneth; Northside Center for Child Development
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1990
- Note (Biographical)
- Secretary, fundraiser.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Interviewed by Jonathan Lee on December 17, 1990.
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Note (Provenance)
- Barbara Jones, Gift 1990
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7094822
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-z1wc-sk93
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.